Guidance counselors always love to say, ‘Just think positively,’ but that’s impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficient happy-though-killing machine.

Commit to excellence, whatever you do. It will bring joy, happiness, and success for you.

To be happy–one must find one’s bliss

When you are beloved and happy, you are a great success.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

You gained experience from your past action. Set goals for the future; act now with imagination.

… people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is...

Have the courage; have the boldness; believe in yourself; you will be a success.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

Success is a way of life, which progressively expands your joyfulness, happiness, and fulfillment.

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Peace is a fresh flower; when it’s freshness and beauty touches heart,it will last forever.

We cannot let go of the past enough to live in the present unless we are able to grieve our losses. We must deeply feel our emotional pain in order to accept that what is...

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

It is preposterous to think that we are peaceful when every day we spend more money to built killing machine than to educate our children.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

Nos-tal-gic,’ Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a word in Japanese, perhaps the Japanese for ‘nostalgic.’ ‘Nos-tal-gic. It is good to be nos-tal-gic. Very...

She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn’t want to let go of at the time. One person can’t be happy enough for the both of us

As long as you have goals to accomplish in this life, you will not truly be complete.

If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive...

If we think about the world peace as much as we think about what to eat next time only for a month, peace will be there.

Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.

If you want happiness, provide it to others

Peace is a beautiful flower of love, harmony and joyPeace is a dancing bird, a joyful smile of a poor boyPeace is a little child’s innocent smile and loving kissFor a war torn mother, peace...

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Happiness is a choice, because being so much blessed doesn’t make you happy, contentment does.

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

Peace is the only destination worth beginning a journey for.

They were both smiling so hard, it was surprising the frame could contain the happiness of that moment, surprising that it didn’t shatter into a million pieces, floating all over the funeral home like dust.

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world...

Love harmony and peace everywhere.It is our hope for our great future.

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of “the mad woman of the house.” And universal history is the gigantic and thousand-year effort to go on putting order...

Our happiness is made up of our needs being fulfilled, our fears being kept at bay in a life made up of days, which are based on pursuing what is most important to us.

Imagine, then think, then desire, then dream, then act to achieve and it will be yours.

It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it. Had I known, had I cherished this gift, would everything have turned out differently?

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won’t see it often.

When I see the darkness and fight,I want to be the love and light.When I see the sadness and suffering,I want to bring happiness and caring.When I see ignorance and agony,I want to cure it...

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes...

I am loving and joyful because I think I am.

Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice in life.

The main thing is to be full of life. Everything else is secondary.

When question ariseHope or not to hopeAlways hope.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child’s face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life, and at that moment “seen” that everything which is good, is loved and...

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Love is like fire, it can burn you, but it also can melt your heart to make you the most beautiful and beloved person.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world...